Gate-latch.



A. R. GREEN.

GATE LATCH.

APPLICATION FILED MAYB, 1912.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

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GATE-LATCH.

Application filed May 8, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED R. GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ensley, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gate-Latches, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawingsf This invention relates to new and useful improvements in gate latches and more particularly to a latch for a swinging gate and my object is to provide a simple and efficient device of this character which will lock upon the gate being disposed to its closed position.

A further object of the invention resides in providing a pivoted latch bar on a swinging member having a depending lug or pin removably threaded therein and a further object resides in providing a catch member comprising a plate having inwardly divergent faces with means at the junction thereof for engagement with the lug or pin carried on the latch member.

lVith these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the specification and claim.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gate showing my improved latch applied to use thereon. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the device as seen on line 22, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section therethrough, as seen on line 3-3, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a similar section as seen on line 14:, Fig. 1.

In describing my invention, I shall refer to the drawing in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views and in which 1 and 2 indicate posts, to the former of which is hingedly secured a gate 8, said gate comprising spaced vertical bars 4: and interposed horizontal bars 5. The vertical end bars, however, of the gate are solid single strips, the outer end bar being provided Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1913.

Serial No. 695,952.

with a longitudinal slot 6 therein, and pivoted between an adjacent pair of vertical bars a is a latch bar 7 which also projects through this slot 6. The inner end of the latch bar has connected thereto the lower end of a coil spring 8, the opposite end of an adjacent pair of vertical bars and the extreme free end of said latch bar which projects a short distance beyond the outer end bar of the gate has removably secured thereto a depending stud or pin 11. The post 2 has the inner face thereof provided with a cavity or the like 12 whereby the projected end of the latch bar 7 may be swung therethrough without contacting with the post proper and the formation of this cavity in said post provides a shoulder 13 thereon. Secured on the shoulder 13 is a catch plate 14 which has inwardly divergent faces 15 thereon being inclined upwardly from their outer to their inner ends and at the apex of said faces, is provided a socket or the like 16 adapted to receive therein the dependent stud or pin 11 on the free end of the latch bar. From this construction it will be seen that as the gate is closed, the dependent stud on the latch bar 7 will contact with the inclined faces of the plate 14 causing the free end of the latch bar to yield against the tension of the spring 8 and when said stud on the latch bar registers with the socket 16, the same will enter the same and lock the gate between the posts.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I have provided a simple, inexpensive and eflicient gate latch and while I have particularly described the elements most well adapted to perform the functions set forth, it is obvious that various changes in form, proportion and in the minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the novel features of theiinvention.

Having thus described this invention, What is claimed is The combination of parts to be secured together; of a latch bar pivotally secured to one Of said parts, a stud removably secured in the free end of said latch bar, and

a keeper carried on the other of said parts 1 and adapted to receive said stud in engagement therewith.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses. ALFRED R. GREEN. Witnesses J osnrrr MARTIN, WILLIAM HOLMES.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G. 

